Roosevelt honors two brave seamen with gold watches
Captain James Durie of the Lillie receives a President Roosevelt gold watch for aiding the rescue of the Ida C. Southard crew on Feb 9 1905. Second mate Stanley Cooper gets binoculars. other rescuers Oscar Francis Janele Jacobson and Simonsen to receive medals.
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James Durie
Donald Steamship Company
Port Auto Line
Percy Sanderson
Roosevelt
United States
Lillie
Ida
MM. Southard
Stanley Cooper
South Shields
England
Southard
Oscar Francis
Janele
Jacobson
Simonsen
New York
Cueany
Broker Juror Castles Runs Cotton Market While Verdict Reached
Cotton broker Barton S. Castles serving as juror in Emma Nash murder trial received market quotations during court hours with permission. The jury found Nash guilty of manslaughter as cotton prices tumbled about 20 points around noon. Some lawyers warned the practice could spark appellate challenges.
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Barton S. Castles
Foster
Emma Nash
Joshua Whitehurst
Cotton Exchange
Castles
Exchange District
Criminal Courts
Beef Trust Disclosures Reveal Possible Indictments
W D Miles once Armour & Co confidential man in Kansas City provided a grand jury with detailed information on the Beef Trust. The disclosures, first given to Attorney General Moody and repeated to President Roosevelt, are said to enable indictments against at least twenty five Beef Trust heads and employees.
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New York Times
Chicago
W. D. Miles
Armour & Co
Kansas City
P. D. Armour
Federal Grand Jury
Beef Trust
Miles
Moody
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Man Identified by Whiskers in Diamond Earrings Theft Case
Bernard Cohen of 1515 Lexington Avenue chased down Isaac Posenier, 113 East Fourth Street, after spotting him at One Hundred Fourth Street. Posenier, who denied the theft of $250 earrings given for testing five years ago, was taken to the station.
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Bernard Cohen
Lexington Avenue
Cohens
One Hundred and Fourth Street
Cohen
Iké Posenier
Isaac Posenier
Posenier
Europe
East Fourth Street
America
Bankers and High Finance Excerpt in Maine Speech
Congress man Charles E. Littlefield calls Maine’s corporate laws the most vicious in the nation and proposes federal supervision of corporations. Justice Emery urges governmental control after Equitable Life revelations. New York’s Kilburn warns high interest deposits cause bank failures and urges safety of deposits over dividends.
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Portland
National Association ‘ of State Bank Supervisors
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
L. A. Emery
Ellsworth
Supreme Court of Maine
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Frederick D. Kilburn
New York State
Mandamus Ordered Bank Stockholders List Copy
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ordered the Consolidated National Bank to permit stockholder Joseph W. Lorge to copy the list of stockholders. Justice Hatch wrote the decision, supported by all five judges. Lorge, a stockholder and bank securities dealer, was denied the copy previously and the court held his right stands even if the copy is for stock trading.
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Supreme Court
Consolidated National Bank
Joseph W. Lorge
Justice Hatch
Lorge
Society Notes Mention Seafaring Plans and Summer Loactions
Mr and Mrs John Alexander Rutherford sail next Wednesday for Europe aboard the Oceanic. They will tour France Switzerland and Italy then sail from Naples on Nov 3. Their yacht Irma will cruise in the West Indies during winter as far south as the Orinoco. James De Wolf Cutting and R Delallier du Pin sailed yesterday on La Lorraine. Mrs Cutting’s mother is in Paris. Sailing on the Teutonic were Mr and Mrs Edward F Du Vivier and Miss Delmonico. C Wentworth Dilke planned to sail for England in late July and will be at Tuxedo over the weekend. Prescott Lawrence and wife travel from Europe to Newport for the summer. The Dutch Count Limburg Stirum may not return soon or may bring a bride, with an engagement to Mme de Pena of Paris announced abroad. The Count was a familiar presence on opera nights and coaching trips. Mrs Herbert Parsons will spend the summer at Newport with her parents, the Clews. Mrs Bainbridge Clark will spend part of the summer at Richfield Springs. Mrs de Acosta and Miss de Acosta are already there.
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Cook
Kans Jansen
Janele
Jacobson
Simonsen
Coney Island
Capt. Orkie
Theodore Roosevelt
John Alexander Rutherford
Europe
France
Switzerland
Italy
Naples
Irma
James de Wolf Cutting
R. de Sallier du Pin
la Lorraine
Mr. Cutting
Paris
Teutonic
Mr. c
Edward F. du Vivier
Miss Delmonico
Limburg Stirum
Mme. de Pena
Katz Lyons Nuptials Held at Hotel Astor Yacht Room
Herm an Katz wed Louise Lyons daughter of Mrs Theresa Lyons at the Hotel Astor in the yacht room the ceremony performed by Rev D Grossman last evening in New York City city.
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Hotel Astor
Herman Katz
Louise Lyons
Theresa Lyons
Seventh Avenue
D. Grossman
Cocks—Knapp
West 40Th St
Percy Stickney Grant
Maud Elanor Knapp
Herman Knapp
Gerhart Hutchinson Cocks
New York City
Theatrical notes from Chicago and Troy venues
Richard Mansfield opens October season at Grand Opera House Chicago with Don Carlos in English. F Proctor adds Griswold Opera House Troy to his circuit. Willie Eckstein, a musical prodigy, debuts at Wistaria Grove roof garden next Monday, praised for multi instrument skill. Tessie McCoy misses Hippodrome performance when blocked Eighth Avenue car. Oliver North fills her seat.
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Richard Mansfield
Grand Opera House
Chicago
Frederick Schiller
F. Proctor
Griswold Opera House
Troy
Mr. Proctor
Willie Eckstein
Paderewski
Wistaria Grove
Tessie McCoy
Hippodrome
Eighth Avenue
Oliver North
Miss McCoy
Secrets of 606 Girls at Normal College Class Day
The 606 woman graduates of the Normal College at Sixty-eighth Street and Lexington Ave celebrate class day with a noon luncheon at the Hotel Astor. The event features "knocks" revealing intimate secrets, playful props, and humorous pageantry led by President Florence Cornell.
Plaza Chaos as Casey Survives Gasoline Carriage Runaway
In a chaotic Plaza scene the blue smoke from a victoria sparks a runaway crash into Central Park. Casey emerges unscathed claiming he fell from the carriage after a bang, while police halt the driverless rig and spectators relay a mix of astonishment and humor.
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Casey
Arsenal
Victoria
Plaza
Vanderbilt Mansion
Rear Admiral Louis J. Allen Dies at 66
Rear Admiral Louis J. Allen United States Navy retired died yesterday at his daughter Mrs. George A. Ludin 229 West Ninety seventh Street of paralysis. He leaves another daughter Mrs. Duncan B. Harrison and a widow. Burial will be in Arlington Virginia. Born Baltimore 1840 he served since 1859 rising to Rear Admiral in 1902. He fought in Civil War operations including Charleston forts and the blockade and later served at Mare Island and Annapolis. He belonged to several patriotic and veteran organizations.
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Louis J. Allen
United States Navy
George A. Ludin
West Ninety-seventh Street
Ludin
Admiral Allen
Duncan B. Harrison
New York
Baltimore
Richard George Berford
Arlington
Jacob Strembach
Allen
St. Mary’s Academy
Emmitsburg
Navy
Atlantic
Charleston
S. C
Adirondack
China
Annapolis Naval Academy
Mare Island Navy Yard
Veteran Corps of Artillery
New York Society of 1812
Continental Society of the War of 1812
Sons of the Revolution
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Grand Army of the Republic
The
Union Club
Four Lukens Trapeze Act Crashes in Wistaria Grove
In Wistaria Grove last night the Four Lukens trapeze troupe suffered a fall when a main rope hook snapped. The apparatus crashed on stage but all four escaped without serious injuries. one man suffered a cut on the head and another minor bruises. The audience appeared more frightened than the performers.
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Lukens
Wistaria Grove
Park Sheep Sold Off In Central Park Auction Day
Old Jim Conway recalls a wet day as twelve ewes bring $15.50 each and twenty ram lambs sell for $4. Old Buttinsky the four year old ram sells for $26.50 while wool yields $116. The dogs Jack and Buttinsky part ways as prize stock move to farmers. Jack the Gaelic speaking collie adjusts to new owners after alerting the flock.
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Jim Conway
Central Park
Jack
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ole Buttinsky
Ram
Buttinsky
Mr. Day
Butt
Mr. Morgan
Death list of a day Philip Waldheimer obituary
Criminal lawyer Philip Waldheimer died yesterday at his home 83 East Tenth Street aged fifty seven. He served as associate counsel in notable cases including Nan Patterson's trial. He leaves a widow and two married sisters. one sister is married to Ira Leo Bamberger of Brooklyn. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery Hebrew plot.
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Philip Waldheimer
East Tenth Street
Nan Patterson
Waldheimer
Ira Leo Bamberger
Brooklyn
Evergreen Cemetery
Obituary: Jeremiah J. Hoff of Springfield Dies at 69
Jeremiah J. Hoff of Springfield New Jersey died at his home Wednesday night from apoplexy at age sixty nine. A Hunterdon County native, he served in the Thirty first New Jersey Volunteers in the Civil War and was longtime member of Millburn Baptist Church. He held public posts as Justice of the Peace Assessor and census enumerator. Survived by a widow and two daughters.
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Jeremiah J. Hoff
Springfield
N. J
Hunterdon County
Thirty-first New Jersey Volunteers
Millburn Baptist Church
J Walter Wood Dies in South Orange at 73
J Walter Wood, a retired banker born in Glasgow, died at his home on Ridgewood Road South Orange yesterday of pneumonia at age 73. He came to the U S in 1845, studied at Columbia College, and co founded Wood & Redmond later J Walter Wood & Co. survived by wife three daughters and a son. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Church of the Holy Communion South Orange which he helped found.
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J. Walter Wood
Ridgewood Road
South Orange
Glasgow
Scotland
Mr. Wood
United States
Columbia College
Wood & Redmond
J. Walter Wood & Co
Church of the Holy Communion
Death of Richard T. Lowndes Jr. in Maryland
Richard T Lowndes Jr of Clarksburg son of ex Gov Lowndes died at his home after collapsing under anaesthetic during surgery for blood poisoning from a hand injury. He was 34 and a Yale graduate.
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New York Times
Cumberland
Richard T Lowndes, Jr
Clarksburg
Lowndes
Yale
Death of Eugene V Connett In New Jersey Hat Trade Veteran
Eugene V Connett died at age sixty nine at his Scotland Road home South Orange New Jersey after a two year illness following abdominal surgery He leaves wife Sophia Rutan Connett married forty seven years ago and four sons in the family business in the hat trade of the country
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Eugene V. Connett
Scotland Road
South Orange
N. J
Sophia Rutan Connett
Notable Brooklyn Inventor Dies in Fire at 4 923 Third Ave
William Gardam founder of William Gardam & Son, makers of drill presses, perishes in a Brooklyn blaze. Born in Leeds over eighty years ago, he leaves a widow, two sons, and a daughter. Aged telegraph chief James T. Wafer dies in Philipsport health trip. George B. Chandler, 72, president of Amoskeag National Bank, dies in Manchester New Hampshire.
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William Gardam
Third Avenue
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Fire Department
Phillipsport
N. Y
Oil Exchange
Stock Exchange
George B. Chandler
Manchester
N. H
Chandler
Amoskeag National Bank
Amoskeag and People’s Savings Banks
New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company
New Books of Notable Fiction and Nonfiction
A catalog of recent titles with authors such as Mrs. Humphry Ward Maurice Hewlett Elinor Glyn and Joseph Conrad. Includes adventures mysteries romance and travel works plus essays on life science and politics. Prices range from 0.60 to 4.00 with illustrated editions and rebindings.
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William Ashe
Frederick Trevor Hill
Warwick Deeping
Miss Bellard
W. D. Howells
Gertrude Atherton
Poe and Maupassant
Salina Sue
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Southland
Dryad
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Club of Queer Trades
G. K. Chesterton
Philip Verrill Mighels
Bruvver
Jim
Morgan Robertson
Clergyman's Blind Wife Seeks Divorce at Seventy
Mrs. Rosana Townsend Boyer, seventy and blind, arraigns Rev. Henry K. Boyer of Robertsville Connecticut in a divorce suit. She, once connected to Virginia families and European titled relatives, says cruelty after a third marriage following a diplomatic former husband.
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Rosana
Tt. Boyer
Manhattan
Staten Island
S. A. Herman
Henry K. Boyer
Robertsville
Conn
Boyer
Frederick Townsend
Townsend Boyer
United States
Mecca Temple
West Twenty-second Street
Fred Boltz
Mystery Enigma Boyer Roams Cities and Mecca Temple
The man known as Boyer moved from Robertsville Connecticut with his wife to Staten Island after a failed school venture. Descriptions note an iron gray mustache and goatee and claims of inheritance from Philadelphia relatives. He earned work via an employment agency at the Mecca Temple Shriners where he spoke of his wife and warned he was not what he seemed to be.
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Boyer
Connecticut
Sis
Europe
Boger
Staten Island
Mecca Temple
Mystic Shriners
Ifty
Philadelphia
Robertsville
Conn
White Mountain tract sale draws huge crowd at Boston auction
A 70 000 acre timber land tract including Mount Washington and much of the Presidential Range sold for 475000 to mortgagee Robert Osgood under a Superior Court decree. He plans no immediate action but aims for thorough improvement and a potential government park transfer.
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Boston
Real Estate Exchange
Mount Washington
Presidential Range
White Mountains
Superior Court
Robert Osgood
Osgood
Asks Funds for Summer Work by Poor Association
The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor seeks 32000 dollars to fund summer work in tenement districts. Contributions are received by Robert Shaw Minturn, treasurer, at 105 East Twenty second Street.
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Association For Improving
East Twenty-second Street
Robert Shaw Minturn
Association
Weather report shows flat temperatures across regions
The weather section notes temperatures rising in the eastern half and the extreme West but near normal overall with little change expected Friday or Saturday. Winds along major coasts are light to variable, shifting to south in several regions, with east winds on the South Atlantic coast and variable patterns on the Gulf and Great Lakes coasts. Steamers sailing Friday to Europe should expect light to variable winds turning south with fair conditions toward the Grand Banks.
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Washington
New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
East Gulf
West Gulf Coast
Upper Lakes
Grand Banks
Weekend Weather Outlook Across Regions
Forecasts show partly cloudy conditions for Friday and Saturday from Eastern New York to Western Pennsylvania. Showers are likely Saturday in interior New York and western New York with light to fresh winds turning south. New England remains fair to partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the west, while New Jersey and Delaware report light south winds.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New England
Funeral of Rear Admiral Allen in Arlington noted
At his late residence 220 West 7th Street Louis J. Allen Rear Admiral United States Navy funeral private interment in Arlington Cemetery Washington D C Copy requested by Washington and Baltimore papers
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Bolan
Castine
Albion K. Bolan
Fourteenth
Maine Volunteers
West 73d St
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Richard T. Lowndes, Jr
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W. L. Alden
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Elizabeth Shipnet
London
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Royal Langbrith
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W. Mason
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Joseph Conrad
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Elizabeth Jordan
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J. J. Bell
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Gabrielle BP. Jackson
Col. A. K. McClure
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Sy c. W. Saleery
Taymen
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Hugo Ganz
Russia
Leon Barritt
A. H. Savage Landor
Philippine Islands
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A. J. Beveridge
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
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Mrs. Boltz
White Mountain
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Webster and
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Stephen Merritt
Chelsea
Ralph D. Paine
Scribner's
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Pleasantville, N. Y
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William Walton Briggs
Mary’ Louise Tomes
Mason
Katchum
Flushing, N. Y
William » . Crocker
Elizabeth Coffin Ketchum
John Tufton Mason
Nicoll—Spies
St. Thomas's Church
Walter Nicholas Clapp
William H. Owen, Jr
Marie Christine
Francis Spies
Fancher Nicoll
Woodworth—Brown
W. S. Brown
Presbyterian Church
Sandy Lake
Justus Laird Woodworth
Cripple Creek
Col
Grace Scott
Zinsser—Kuaz
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William R. Jenvey
D.D
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George Frederick Kunz
Hans Zinsser
Cleveland
South Broadway
Yonkers
Emily P. Cleveland
St. John’s Cemetery
Pe Gardam
Third Ave
Jackson
Wantagh
L. I
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Thomas B
Maria C. Jackson
Samuel J. Jones
Long Island City
Flushing Cemetery
Robertson
Moses P. Robertson
Montague St
Norfolk
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East 86Th St
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